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Konkuk University, Seoul · October 5–7, 2016

Natural Science Farming Symposium 2016

A day of talks in Seoul, then two days on the farms. 23 talks, three languages. Master Cho's students from ten countries showed what natural farming did on their fields, from Afghan potatoes to Hawaiian macadamias. Every talk is translated, checked line by line, and boiled down to what was tested and what happened.

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Also on the record: Hilo 2015

Topics microbes soil economics pigs poultry rice history corn food scale disease feed health minerals protectors reproduction Clear

1 talk on “taste”

Kim Eun-ja ·South Korea ·21 min Spoken in Korean

Native Corn Fed by Growth Stage: Up to Ten Ears on a Stalk

A farmer who runs a natural farming test farm in Paju fed Korean native corn by growth stage. She made her own Microbes-based fertilizers ("IMO5") for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and gave them at the times Master Cho teaches. Her seed came from a variety that, she was told, sets one ear per stalk, two at most. Her video shows a plant counted to ten ears, and she says most of the ten filled. This is a first-season farm report with no control, no yields and no dilutions.

Found One plant was counted to ten ears on video

corn microbes native seed nutrient cycle phosphorus pollination